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Investigative reporter Pamela Colloff wins Louis M. Lyons Award

The current class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University has selected Pamela Colloff, an executive editor at the Texas Monthly, as this year’s recipient of the Louis M. Lyons Award…
December 13, 2013
Nieman offers new resources for journalists covering immigration

Nieman offers new resources for journalists covering immigration

With generous support from the MacArthur Foundation, the Nieman Foundation organized a workshop in late October for reporters, editors and new media voices who cover immigration. Designed for those who…
December 12, 2013

Nelson Mandela remembered by South African Nieman Fellows

As the world remembers former South African President Nelson Mandela following his death on Dec. 5, journalists everywhere are reflecting on the man and his legacy. Some of those who…
December 5, 2013
Achille Mbembe: Urban Ruins and the “New Unconscious”

Achille Mbembe: Urban Ruins and the “New Unconscious”

Cameroonian-born philosopher and political scientist Achille Mbembe is a professor at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa who specializes in issues of urbanization and modern society. He spent…
December 4, 2013

Update: Paul Salopek, NF ’12, and his trek across the globe

2012 Nieman Visiting Fellow Paul Salopek and his epic 21,000-mile walk around the world are the focus of National Geographic’s December 2013 cover story. In To Walk the World, the…
November 27, 2013

David Skok, NF ’12, new digital adviser to Boston Globe editor

David Skok, NF ’12 and director of Globalnews.ca, is joining The Boston Globe as digital adviser to the editor. In a memo sent to staff on Nov. 26, Globe editor…
November 26, 2013

Giannina Segnini, NF ’02, receives Gabriel García Márquez Award

Costa Rican journalist Giannina Segnini, NF ’02, has won the 2013 Recognition of Journalistic Excellence Award, presented by the governing council of the Gabriel García Marquez Journalism Awards. Founder and…
November 21, 2013

Two Niemans Named Dart Center Ochberg Fellows

Two recent Nieman Fellows have been awarded Dart Center Ochberg Fellowships by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Maggie Jones, NF ’12,…
November 19, 2013

Errol Morris, Filmmaker

Before coming to the Nieman Foundation on November 13, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris tweeted that he was going to discuss “the New New Journalism: Speaking Power to Truth,” by which he meant…
November 13, 2013

New Yorker Staff Writer Evan Osnos delivers the 2013 Morris Lecture

Evan Osnos, a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for The New Yorker, will deliver the 33rd Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on…
November 12, 2013